The Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Maryland’s Best program, partnering with the Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP), has ...

The meeting comes as the conclusion of a five-year ban on wild oyster harvesting approaches in January 2026. FWC staff are recommending a partial re-opening when the ban ends. Their goal is to ...

But Walsh doesn't harvest the tasty mollusks by scooping them up by hand or using tongs to pull them from the depths of the water, both traditional methods of harvesting wild oysters. Instead ...

This month's spawn event could produce 9 million to 15 million new oysters for use by local towns ... to grow and eventually breed in the wild. Cornell suspects genetic diversity has declined ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Wild oysters used to populate America's coasts. Conservationists are trying to bring them back — not just for eating, but to save our coastlines, too. More from ...

Oyster habitats have declined by 50% in the Gulf of Mexico due in part to coastal development and hurricanes, Texas officials say.